No more 'Negro' for Census Bureau forms and surveys
The Census Bureau announced Monday that it would drop the word "Negro" from
its forms, after some described it as offensive. According to the Associated Press, the term will
be replaced next year by black or African-American. From the AP:
"The change will take effect next year when the Census Bureau distributes its
annual American Community Survey to more than 3.5 million U.S. households,
Nicholas Jones, chief of the bureau's racial statistics branch, said in an
interview."
AP reports that the term was first used in the 1900 Census, and back in 2010,
a bureau public information officer told us that the word had been on Census forms
since about 1950.
But the bureau and the Census Director's Blog decided to tackle the
issue after many African-American people complained about it during the 2010
Census.
its forms, after some described it as offensive. According to the Associated Press, the term will
be replaced next year by black or African-American. From the AP:
"The change will take effect next year when the Census Bureau distributes its
annual American Community Survey to more than 3.5 million U.S. households,
Nicholas Jones, chief of the bureau's racial statistics branch, said in an
interview."
AP reports that the term was first used in the 1900 Census, and back in 2010,
a bureau public information officer told us that the word had been on Census forms
since about 1950.
But the bureau and the Census Director's Blog decided to tackle the
issue after many African-American people complained about it during the 2010
Census.
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"No more 'Negro' for Cencus Bureau Forms and Surveys," is an article by Tanya Brown. She states, "the Census Bureau announced Monday that it would drop the word 'Negro' from it's forms." This is a form of Segregation because the Census Bureau is taking the right from Affrican Americans to be called what they want. The monster in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was segregatied. He was not given a home and he was not wanted. "When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me, was I, the, a monster, a blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?" (105). The monster is saying that he feels alone, he has no one there to look out for him, that is why I believe that the article, and Frankenstein go good together. African Americans probably fell alone, they are having their name taken from them and they have no one's help.
Brown, Tanya. "No More 'Negro' for Census Bureau Forms and Surveys."
KPCC. Southern California Public Radio, 25 Feb. 2013. Web. 27 Feb. 2013.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus:
With Connections. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1999. Print.
Brown, Tanya. "No More 'Negro' for Census Bureau Forms and Surveys."
KPCC. Southern California Public Radio, 25 Feb. 2013. Web. 27 Feb. 2013.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus:
With Connections. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1999. Print.